The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-11-30
TEAIS.Sa DOMESTIC SERVANTS.
= Seg 3rSiurss Developing for Women g
New ;crk--The Domestic Problem '.i:d L
-n:u:icn--GaoG Servants Needed.

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New ,crk--The Domestic Problem ai:'! t.
-r:u;ica--GaoI Servants Needed.
E. I. Il. III savannah News
New YORK, November l1.-There IS !
new business Tor women which IS jus:
aiming footholG IN New York. L IS tina:
of teacher OF domestic servants.
She OF the kitchen has so far repentet'
OF her deficiencies or become SO tarawarc
OF the better pay ard better househoi.'
positions 10 be secured By remedylns
them, that It has become an occDpatloG
which already supports nun oer OF
canable women OF some executive aoiilty
to 60 about from house &c house. and L.
ths kitchens Of tie niatresses or II thS
girls house, or II rooms especially ttted
mp for that purpose. 70 give praclcai
lessons IL cookery and otHec hcuseho!a
arts.
Girls who have rot come u1tier tli-
form oi instruction, il cases where they
csn raise the money to pay for it. are
beginning to go 20 the hotel chefs anc
pick up culinary wrinkles, from them.
There IS 10 doubt that 2 certain propor'
ton OF the mere Intelligent Of the kisch-
cn queens lave thoroughly walked up to
the fact that q better order OF domestic
service is called for and viii be pal:i to-
if obtained.
I called upon Miss Juliet Ccrsor, tn
pioneer CT the cooking schools, II her
rooms at The Continental Hotel. yester-
day, to inquire into the truth Of the re-
port Of Il training school Tor toe servants
OF 8 large scsle to be established IN New
Iork under the auspices OF Secretary
Whitnev's wife. Mss CorSon is not IN
coed health and has many ingenious
contIivances fo- carrying on her literary
qSoih without rising from her couch ~
which she spends much OF her time.
s.Is is not true" she said, "that any
definite arrangements have been made,
or that Mrs. Whitney has been in COM
n,unication with me at all upon the sub
iecs. ido not know Of anything definite
enough to be called q plan on foot in the
city. st the same tine things are ripe
for Just such Il project, If money enough
could be raised to start it on such scale
as 70 give it any real influence il the
city, and if the thing were in the hands
OF responsible people practical enough
to know just what to do.
ssIf such school we're established" /
asked, "does your experience lead you to
believe that the right kind Of girls would
60 into it? Is not the position Of do
mestie servant held in such 6isrepute
that il woul be hard to find the irtelli-
gent and se!:-respecting giri who ought
t. have charge OF the domestic economy
! of the kitchen, who would care to 1t her
self fox any such place as q professlon?'
That trouble would have been felt s.
few years ago." Miss Corson said, and
hss ioterierred with some attempt Of tue
sort, but things are beginning to be
different now. Anarchy in the kitchen
has produced such weeping and vail
ing throughout the land that it hss pen
elratsa the ears OF servantiom, and the
girls themselves know that it is to the
Interest OF their pocket books to do Oct
ter"
"Wou3d american girls go into a
training school for servants?" l asked.
s:Nos many, probably. Some would
be glad Of chance to lit themselves for
positions as supervising or working
hocseheepers, places which pay better
! t;i,a.a 2-.any things which well educated
aaG intelligent women do. :.
~: vopld surprise you TO know, Miss
CorSon went on, chow mary girls there
are Who are only waiting for chance to
taught. I have cone across numbers
OF taer. who are ready TO give their time
and their money to learn how to perform
their duties better, not IRON any prick
ing Of conscience, but because they krow
it woa)d pay them in the END. The
constant agitation Of the subject has
produced tina: much effect at least.
The domestic problem is g pe-piezing
one, and there have been divers attempts
} st g solution il New York. Several at
tenpts at systematic training OF servants
| have baen made, one OF the most notable
dating from 1873, when cooking schoo.
and industrial training estab;i;GmenS-
! the oatgrowth OF the financial panic
which drove many women to depend on
tie nselves fer bread and butter-was
established and iid good work ior some
time. 4 similar Institution was opened
in 1878, but fell through largely because
many Of the girls admitted were too
young to take positions in families. The
Industrial education association, IN which
Miss Grace 81. Dodge, the school COM
sioner, IS so largely interested, has COOK
ing classes, of which Miss Alice Burns is
principal, but the pupils are for the most
pas; schoo: children, and the same is the
case with the New York Cooking School
In Lafayette place. 4 start hss been
made by the board Of education toward
Introducing cooking as study in the
girls grammar schools, but the arrange
ment IS not likely to go into practical
operation for some time. In point OF
fact, the '.iately landed" just set ashore
at Castle Garden has few places open to
her in which she could preside over the
| family digestion If ne wished. All al
| tempts to precipitate domestic revolu-
tioa IN the night direction, toward
efficiency in the kitchen, In New York,
are hindered by that dlttta0te charity
| which leads women with money and
social ambition TO get their names placed
| upon ''boards" CT ansorts, philanthropic
and semi philanthropic, more with the